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Three consecutive first-place finishes, however, thrust the duo back into the thick of competition...
Harvard freshman Sara Sedgwick, with a firm thrust of her head that propelled a ball deep into an unguarded crack in the Princeton defense, slew the final one, and thereby freed the Crimson players from their season-long curse against ranked opposition...
This did not present a problem. That night, the crowd— fresh-faced and soft-butch, sporting horn-rimmed glasses and carefully bedraggled coiffures—was frequently reduced to whispers amid thundering drum solos, only to be thrust back into blissful tumult by exploding guitars and vocals...
...general thrust is, [members are] not coming in on a frequent basis, and [when they do, they’re] seeing folks that are non-members and non-contributors to the financial operation of the club abusing it as if they were members,” Sears said...
...prosperous Arab world is in everyone's interest, and unseating Saddam would be a good start down that road. It's what follows that's tricky. The lesson of history is that reforms succeed best if they well up from within a nation, not when they are thrust upon it from outside. If the Administration seriously thinks otherwise, it would be nice to know what lessons it has learned from the failed imperialism of the past. And not just about the finer points of pigsticking...